US president Donald Trump spoke to the World Economic Forum at Davos virtually last year. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg
On day three of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos last year, I sped down from the press centre to the main hall for US president Donald Trump’s virtual address to the event (they were in different locations).
The purpose? I wanted to gauge, first hand, the reaction of Europe’s elite to Trump’s incendiary rhetoric.
Would they sit in stony silence as he thrashed the European Union? Would they reproach him for his climate denying?
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